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This short post is meant to offer the
most realistic idea of why Italy is an exception if compared to modern
democracies. Professor Gianfranco Pasquino, one of
Italy’s most important political experts, explains the concept of democracy
while answering to a mail sent to Coffee Break a political morning show aired
by La7. “Democracy is exactly where everybody
has the right to express himself and where “somebody”, at last, shall summarize and find the proper compromise
within each position. A popular vote will then eventually approve the choice of
who’s in charge.” In other words ideologies, political
parties and the act of voting itself are
meaningless. Everybody is a “legislator” and everybody, even if expression of a
micro minority, shall have the power to oppose or even to block any majority’s initiative. Why, then, should a candidate or a party
aim to obtain the majority of voter’s consensus? Gianfranco Pasquino's bioTreccani